November 2025

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I can feel that winter is coming. Though I suppose the weather is not going to be so harsh – given that I live in the Southern part of my country.

Now, where to begin?

November 3

Let’s try to wrap things up then. I need to get straight to sustaining my routine as soon as possible. Which means I need to get done with other trivial tasks soon.

Meh… it rained cats and dogs this morning. Right after I got out of the doctor’s office.

The good news is that my condition is getting better, as informed by the doctor. Now the prescription is much milder. I hope the attack will not visit me again.

I’m in the coffee shop right now. I was divided between either staying at home or going to the coffee shop. But it’s Monday – so I suppose it’s better to start the momentum. Not to mention, it’s much more comfortable to stop at the coffee shop, given that it is raining so terribly.

Ok, let’s just get things done. Today I started later than usual due to the visit to the doctor, so it’s better to just do it immediately!

(09:56 AM GMT+7 – November 3, 2025)

November 4

Can anyone of us – by worrying – make our hair grow longer?

Why do we worry so much every time something wrong happens?

The fear of uncertainty, the discomfort of disruption…

Breathe… breathe… breathe.

I’m still here. I’m still alive. And that is good news.

…

I wonder, how did those like Marcus Aurelius handled things back in the day? To see atrocities everyday, to have to commit atrocities by oneself, to be haunted by death all the time…

It’s hard being a king – but even harder (or is it?) being both a king and a philosopher. A leader and a thinker at the same time.

But there’s a reason why those like Plato advocated for such people to be in the lead.

These days, I wonder, how many leaders out there are actually philosophers themselves? How many political leaders/ business owners do stop to reflect and think? Or are most of them just in autopilot mode?

What about us? What about the self-leaders?

(08:25 AM GMT+7 – November 4, 2025)

November 5

Maybe moving forward, I will be at home in the morning – and the coffee shop in the afternoon – for a while?

Somehow I’ve been finding it hard to concentrate while staying at home – especially in the afternoon.

I suppose I can prepare everything in the previous evening – and then decide each morning whether I should go out early or after lunch.

Anw, let’s see…

Let’s wrap up a few pending tasks today first. I hope I can smash them all. And let’s revisit the gym – probably this evening (I hope it’s not going to rain cats and dogs like it did yesterday).

I’m feeling that my energy level has been dropping. That’s not a good sign. I need a lot of energy before I can embark on the next journey.

I should not think much about it yet – just what I need to do right now. Definitely I need to know where I’m heading for – but I should not be too concerned about how and when. As long as I am doing the right things in the moment.

That, I suppose, is mindfulness. Nothing special. Nothing tricky. Just know what one is doing.

Well then, time to go!

(12:49 PM GMT+7 – November 5, 2025)

November 6

Why do we care too much about this thing called “common sense”?

We just assume that we have to go to work; that we have to have a family; that we have to advance to the position of management; that we have to …

And then, for what?

We do a lot of things just because people tell us to do that – just because our “common sense” tells us to do that. Just because we think it’s “efficient” – that it guarantees fast results.

And in the process, we are no longer the person we aspire to become.

What if we could just, for a moment, pause in silence and reflect on it? On how we have been living so far?

What if we could, for a moment, forsake all of the “common sense” – and started to truly live? To be mindful in every thought and word, in what we do – and even in what we fail to do?

If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.
Charles Bukowski

(12:14 PM GMT+7 – November 6, 2025)